Entries by Stephen Barrie, ND

Elixirs, Potions, Tonics... An elixir of youth capable of at least reversing the ravages of aging, if not bestowing immortality, has always been one of the enduring dreams of humanity. We don't want to just live longer; we want to live younger.

You probably think that fat cells are passive blobs that do nothing more than store energy, bloat flabby hips and bellies, and perhaps wear down the body by forcing it to cart around a lot of extra weight.

But new research is fundamentally altering that view: fat cells, over...

There are over 10 quadrillion (that's 10,000,000,000,000,000) little critters living in your intestines. That's more bacteria then the cells in your body -- by a factor of 10 -- even more then the total number of stars in the Milky Way Galaxy!